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- the present invention refers to a method of fabricating controlled domain structures in ferroelectric materials where domains of different sections of the structure have different polarities.
- Ferroelectric structures of this kind are used in applications where it is required to change properties of electromagnetic radiation, for example, in non-linear optical converters where a fundamental radiation having one frequency is converted into a radiation having another frequency.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic illustration of an invertedly poled domain structure fabricated by a method of the kind to which the present invention refers;
- FIG. 2 is a schematic illustration of a wafer in which one polar surface is formed with a patterned layer of an isolating material
- FIG. 3 is a schematic illustration of a wafer in which, adjacent one polar surface of the wafer, a structure of chemically modified regions is created;
- FIG. 4 is a schematic illustration of a wafer in which, adjacent one polar surface of the wafer, a structure of shallow inverted domains is created;
- FIG. 5 is a schematic illustration of a vacuum chamber in which the method according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention is performed
- FIG. 6 illustrates the dependence on the temperature, of the dielectric response time and the switching time of a flux grown KTP, at the electric field of 65 kV/cm;
- FIG. 7 is an optical microphotographic representation of a cross-section of a periodically invertedly poled domain structure made of a flux grown KTP crystal by means of the method of the present invention.
- FIG. 8 illustrates the dependence of the intensity of the generated second harmonic intensity obtained with a periodically poled domain structure fabricated by means of the method of the present invention, on the wavelength of the fundamental radiation.
- Optical converters of the kind specified are used as sources of coherent radiation for such applications where, for example, laser sources of a required radiation frequency are unavailable or where the turnability of a source of radiation is required in a relatively wide range of frequencies.
- phase propagation velocities of fundamental and converted radiation must be equalized, i.e. phase matching should be provided.
- the optical conversion of the kind specified is based on nonlinear electronic polarization which may be observed in crystals having no center of symmetry.
- Some crystals of this kind namely ferroelectric crystals, are characterized by having an electrical spontaneous polarization P s .
- the sign of their nonlinear optical coefficient and their electro-optic coefficient depends on the direction of the vector of this spontaneous polarization.
- the direction of the spontaneous polarization can be reversed by applying to the crystal an external electric field stronger than the crystal's threshold defined as a coercive field.
- This possibility to selectively switch the spontaneous polarization P s in the crystals makes the ferroelectric materials specifically suitable for the fabrication of structures having alternating sections in which domains have opposite electric polarities. In the alternating sections of such structures, the nonlinear optical coefficient has opposite signs, by means of which a desired phase matching is obtained.
- phase-matching methods is quasi-phase matching which is associated with such ferroelectric structures where the sections of invertedly poled domains are arranged periodically. These structures are known as periodically poled domain structures (PPDS) and FIG. 1 herein illustrates an example of such a structure.
- PPDS periodically poled domain structures
- ferroelectric structures of the kind specified may be performed by different ways of which one is based on the application to a ferroelectric crystal wafer of an external electric field which is stronger than the coercive field of the crystal, which causes the inversion of a polar axis thereof.
- This method generally comprises the following sequence of operations:
- Step (a) of the above method may be performed in different ways.
- a patterned layer of an isolating material for example, such as shown in FIG. 2 herein or as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,526,173; or selected regions of the wafer adjacent to the polar surface may be chemically modified so as to inhibit subsequent nucleation and growth of selected domains, such as disclosed in EP 689 941 and illustrated in FIG. 3 herein.
- the electrodes applied to the polar surfaces of the wafer in step (b) of the above method may be either in the form of a continuous layer or in the form of an array of separate electrodes each directly connected with a corresponding first region.
- step (c) The electric field E applied to the wafer in step (c) above will be referred to herein as a “switching field” and the voltage by means of which such a field is provided will be referred to as “switching voltage”.
- the purpose of step (c) is to cause the switching of the crystal polarity in those sections of the wafer which are associated with said first regions, whilst in the sections associated with the second regions, the original polarity will be kept unchanged. For most applications, it is desired that the switching is performed in such a manner that interfaces between the sections having opposite polarities are parallel to each other and extend through the entire crystal body from one of its polar surfaces to the other.
- the materials usually used for the production of structures of invertedly poled domains are highly isolating ferroelectric crystals such as LiTaO 3 , LiNbO 3 , KTiOPO 4 (KTP) and RbTiOAsO 4 .
- LiNbO 3 and LiTaO 3 are the most popular. However, these materials are known to have, at room temperature, very high coercive fields and, therefore, require the application of extremely high switching fields, i.e. about 260 kV/cm. Such high fields lead to lateral displacement of domain walls which renders the fabrication of uniform structures having small periods very difficult, if not impossible. Moreover, since the intensity of the electrical field depends on the applied switching voltage and on the wafer's thickness, the high switching electric fields may be obtained either by the increase of the applied switching voltage or by the use of thin wafers. However, a max value of the applicable switching voltage is limited by practical considerations which put extremely severe limitations on the maximal thickness of wafers. Thus, the maximal thickness which a crystal of LiNbO 3 or LiTaO 3 , may have to obtain the complete polarity inversion at room temperature is about 0.5 mm, whilst with greater thickness, the polarity inversion cannot be achieved.
- the coercive fields at room temperature are relatively low (about 25 kV/cm) and, therefore, for the polarity inversion, they do not require the application of high electrical fields.
- These crystals also have a higher optical damage threshold than that of LiNbO 3 and are, therefore, more suitable for optical conversion.
- the electrical conductivity of most of the commercially available KTP crystals is too high ( ⁇ 10 ⁇ 7 +10 ⁇ 8 ⁇ ⁇ 1 cm ⁇ 1 ) for the electrical poling process, it is very difficult to obtain the desired domain poling in the first unprotected regions while ensuring the efficient protection in the second regions. Therefore, most attempts to use the relatively highly conductive ferroelectric crystals such as flux grown KTP crystals, for the fabrication of invertedly poled domain structures, resulted in extremely nonuniform structures.
- switching time ⁇ sw means the time during which the complete domain polarity inversion occurs in the ferroelectric crystal at a predetermined intensity of an applied electric field.
- Both the dielectric response time and the switching time depend on the temperature at which the electric field is applied to the crystal and there exists a temperature T x at which the dielectric response time ⁇ res equals the switching time ⁇ sw , above which ⁇ res ⁇ sw and below which ⁇ res > ⁇ sw .
- a method of fabricating an invertedly poled domain structure having alternating sections of opposite electric polarities, from a ferroelectric crystal wafer having two opposite polar surfaces comprising:
- said electrical field is applied to the wafer at a working temperature T w which satisfies the condition T min ⁇ T w ⁇ T x , where the temperature T min is the minimal temperature at which the intensity E of the switching electric field still satisfies the condition E br >E ⁇ E c .
- the method of the present invention is based on the control of temperature at which the switching field is applied to the wafer, which allows to fabricate high quality invertedly poled domain structures from various ferroelectric crystals.
- a method of fabricating an invertedly poled domain structure having alternating sections of opposite electric polarities, from a ferroelectric crystal wafer having two opposite polar surfaces comprising:
- the temperature at which the electrical field is applied to the wafer is below room temperature.
- switching time ⁇ sw means the time during which the complete domain polarity inversion occurs in the sections of the wafer associated with the first, unprotected regions of the polar surface thereof.
- the switching time in fact defines the time which is required for the charge injected into the wafer by an external electrical current to reach the value of 2 Ps ⁇ S 1 , where Ps is the electric spontaneous polarization of the ferroelectric material and S 1 is a total surface area of the first regions.
- the dielectric response time ⁇ res defines the time during which the charge drifted inside the crystal body between the polar surfaces of the wafer at the second, protected regions reaches the value of 2 Ps ⁇ S 2 , where S 2 is a total surface area of the second regions.
- a time interval ⁇ dur during which the switching field is applied to the ferroelectric crystal wafer must not be shorter than the switching time ⁇ sw .
- the time interval ⁇ dur should be substantially shorter than the dielectric response time ⁇ res of the protected regions. Therefore, the time ⁇ dur should be chosen, in accordance with the present invention, so as to satisfy the above condition ⁇ sw ⁇ dur ⁇ res .
- said working temperature T w at which the electric field is applied to the electrodes is lower than room temperature.
- This mode is based on the realization that, in some ferroelectric materials, in particular those having relatively high electrical conductivity, the temperature T x below which a dielectric response time ⁇ res of the crystal is longer than a switching time ⁇ sw of the crystal at the chosen intensity E of the electric field, is lower than room temperature, whilst at room temperature, their dielectric response time ⁇ res is shorter than the switching time ⁇ sw .
- the dielectric response time ⁇ res of KTP crystals at room temperature is about 30-300 ⁇ s whilst the switching time ⁇ sw is in the range of 1.66-0.075 ms. Consequently, at room temperature, it is practically impossible, with most commercially available KTP crystals, to choose the time interval ⁇ dur of the application of the electric field for which the condition stipulated in accordance with the present invention is satisfied, which does not allow for a controllable method of their fabrication providing high quality ferroelectric structures produced thereby.
- the working temperature T w is higher than room temperature and substantially lower than Curie temperature of the ferroelectric crystal.
- the second mode of the present invention is based on the fact that in ferroelectric materials having at room temperature relatively low electrical conductivity, the temperature T x is higher than room temperature and the condition ⁇ sw ⁇ dur ⁇ res may be satisfied even at temperatures which are much higher than room temperature.
- the coercive field thereof becomes weaker, whereby the switching electric field applied to the crystal may be much lower than that required at room temperature. This allows for the production of the structures with finer pitches between the sections having different polarities and at lower switching electric fields, and enables the use of thicker crystal wafers.
- the method comprises a starting step of modifying the crystal to change its conductivity and thereby to increase the dielectric response time ⁇ res so as to meet the condition ⁇ res > ⁇ sw .
- the time interval ⁇ dur meets the condition:
- the switching field applied to the wafer in all modes of the method of the present invention may be in the form of a sequence of pulses the total duration of which is defined by ⁇ dur .
- different methods may be used such as forming, on one of the polar surfaces, a patterned layer of an isolating material, or forming, adjacent to one of the polar surfaces, either a structure of chemically modified regions or a structure of shallow inverted domains.
- the operation (c) of the method of the present invention is performed with the wafer being mounted on a temperature controlled stage in a vacuum chamber.
- the ferroelectric material used in the method of the present invention is either K 1-x Rb x TiOP 1-y As y O 4 (1 ⁇ x ⁇ 0, 1 ⁇ y ⁇ 0); or A 1-x B x Ti 1-z Nb z OP 1-y As y O 4 (1 ⁇ x0, 1 ⁇ y ⁇ 0, 1 ⁇ z ⁇ 0), where A and B are one of the alkaline elements; Na, K, Cs, Rb or H; or LiNb 1-x Ta x O 3 (1 ⁇ x ⁇ 0); or KNb 1-x Ta x O 3 (1 ⁇ x ⁇ 0).
- the invertedly poled domain structures fabricated by the method of the present invention may be periodic and non-periodic and may be used for different purposes associated with conversion of electro-magnetic radiation. Periodically, poled domain structures fabricated by the method of the present invention are particularly useful to provide quasi-phase matching for their use, for example, in second harmonic generators, sum frequency generators, difference frequency generators, optical parametric oscillators and the like.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic illustration of an invertedly poled domain structure 1 produced by a method of the kind to which the present invention refers.
- the structure 1 is periodic and has a regular domain configuration in which a vector of spontaneous polarization P s has opposite directions in adjacent sections 2 and 3 of the structure.
- the structure has a period of modulation ⁇ and is adapted to convert a radiation having a fundamental frequency ⁇ into a radiation having a second harmonic frequency 2 ⁇ .
- At least one polar surface of the wafer is first patterned to have alternating first and second regions 8 and 9 such that the first regions 8 are adapted for and the second regions 9 are protected from the direct application thereto of an electric contact.
- the patterning of the polar surface 6 may be performed by one of the following ways described with reference to FIGS. 2, 3 and 4 .
- FIG. 2 illustrates the polar surface 6 of the wafer, coated with a thin isolating layer (0.5-1.0 ⁇ m) of a photoresist material 5 patterned by means of any known microlithographic techniques.
- the photoresist 5 covers only the regions 9 of the wafer, thereby protecting these regions from the direct application thereto of an electric field.
- the photo-resist may be replaced by such isolators as, for example, SiO 2 or Si 3 N 4 .
- FIG. 3 illustrates the wafer modified chemically in the regions 9 so as to inhibit domain nucleation and growth. This method is disclosed in EP 687 941 incorporated herein by reference.
- FIG. 4 illustrates the wafer having a shallow pattern of inverted domains in the regions 9 .
- This method is generally based on the fabrication, in a ferroelectric material, of a bi-domain structure consisting of two adjacent domains of opposite polarity oriented in the ‘head-to-head’ or ‘tail-to-tail’ manner along the polar axis of the material, whereby there is in fact provided a highly stable invertedly poled domain layer disposed at regions 9 of the wafer perpendicular to the polar axis thereof and preventing the regions 9 from being influenced by an applied electric field.
- the invertedly poled domain layer is preferably formed by means of Rb-indiffusion on the C ⁇ polar surface 6 of the wafer.
- the process of the formation of such a layer is described in D. Eger, M. Oron and M. Katz, J. Appl. Phys., 74, pp.4298-4302, 1993, incorporated herein by reference.
- the bi-domain structure may be fabricated by selective application of short electric pulses at the regions 9 of the wafer, or by exposing the polar surface 6 to an electron beam or other charged particles beam, or by different kinds of diffusion treatment.
- the patterned polar surface 6 and the opposite polar surface 7 of the wafer are further coated with continuous metallic layers which constitute switching electrodes 10 and 11 , whereby the first regions 8 contact directly with the electrode 10 and the second regions 9 are protected from direct contact therewith.
- the continuous electrode 10 disposed on the patterned polar surface 6 of the wafer may be in the form of an array of separate electrodes each directly connected with a corresponding first region 2 (not shown).
- the wafer prepared as described above is mounted on a temperature controlled stage 15 , preferably, in a vacuum chamber 16 .
- the electrodes 10 and 11 are connected to an electric power source schematically designated as 20 .
- the temperature of the wafer is brought to a working temperature T w and a pulse of a switching voltage is applied to the electrodes 10 and 11 such as to provide the switching field of a predetermined intensity E, the pulse duration being ⁇ dur satisfying the condition ⁇ sw ⁇ dur ⁇ res .
- T w T min ⁇ T w ⁇ T x
- the temperature T min is the minimal temperature at which the intensity E of the switching electric field still satisfies the condition E br >E ⁇ E c
- the above mentioned parameters can be determined on the basis of physical measurements of the ferroelectric crystal which may be conducted on a reference piece wafer.
- the working temperature T w In ferroelectric crystals having, at room temperature, a relatively high electrical conductivity, the working temperature T w will most often be lower than room temperature and in ferroelectric crystals having, at room temperature, a relatively low electrical conductivity, it is preferable that the working temperature T w be higher than room temperature.
- the dielectric response time ⁇ res and the switching time ⁇ sw depend on the temperature at which the switching electric field is applied to the wafer. As seen, with the intensity of the switching electric field being 65 kV/cm, the dielectric response time ⁇ res of the crystal is shorter than its switching time ⁇ sw at a temperature higher than about T x , whilst at a temperature lower than T x , the dielectric response time ⁇ res is longer than the switching time ⁇ sw .
- the switching electric field must be applied to the wafer at the working temperature T w which is substantially lower than the temperature T x and for the time interval ⁇ dur which is shorter than the dielectric response time ⁇ res and at least not shorter than the switching time ⁇ sw .
- the working temperature T w must necessarily be higher than T min defined above.
- the working temperature T w is lower than the temperature at which the switching time ⁇ sw equals ⁇ res /10 and the time interval ⁇ dur meets the following condition:
- a periodically poled domain structure of a monodomain flux grown, z-cut KTP wafer was fabricated as follows.
- the switching time ⁇ sw is 2.37 ms.
- the time interval during which the switching electric field was applied to the wafer was chosen to be 5.5 ms.
- the periodically invertedly poled domain structures fabricated as above had a high quality grating of inverted domains across the entire wafer from the front to the back surface thereof (see FIG. 7) and presented the efficiency of the second harmonic generation close to the theoretical one.
- FIG. 8 illustrates the intensity of a second harmonic generation radiation obtained by means of this structure as a function of the wavelength of a fundamental IR radiation.
- the narrow width of the peak seen at 980.5 nm and its intensity indicate that the domain polarity inversion occurred along the entire length of the wafer.
- the method according to the present invention may be potentially used for fabricating PPDSs having very small periods such as those required for the generation of UV radiation, which can hardly be obtained with conventional techniques.
- the method of the present invention is useful not only for use with the ferroelectric crystals as indicated above but also with the ferroelectric crystals which, at room temperature, have a relatively long dielectric time response ⁇ res but coercive fields of which are very high.
- the use of such materials in the method of the present invention is associated with working temperatures higher than room temperature but substantially lower than the Curie temperature.
- LiNbO 3 crystal at room temperature has very high coercive field, i.e. 260 kV/cm.
- the coercive field may be reduced respectively to 80 kV/cm or to 60 kV/cm.
- the electrical conductivity of the crystal increases, its dielectric response time is still sufficiently long to meet the conditions of the present invention.
- pole a LiNbO 3 wafer at temperatures between 100° C. to 200° C. Thereby, relatively thick wafers may be used for the fabrication of invertedly poled domain structures of this kind of crystal.
- invertedly poled domain structures fabricated by the method of the present invention may be periodic and non-periodic and may be used for different purposes associated with conversion of electromagnetic radiation.
- Periodically invertedly poled domain structures fabricated by the method of the present invention are particularly useful for providing quasi-phase matching between at least two radiation beams propagating within the structure, which may be used in second harmonic generators, sum frequency generators, difference frequency generators, optical parametric oscillators and the like.
- the structures may also be used for the purposes of optical switching, scanning and modulating.
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